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Were following mandates and mask mandates. pete williams is our justice correspondent. kara lee is at the white house. dr. david michaels served as the head of osha under president obama. pete, let me start with you. there were about three hours and 40 minutes of arguments today in front of the supreme court. there were a couple of interesting moments. i want to play one for you now. >> i would think that workplace risk is about the greatest, least controllable risk with respect to covid that an...

Indoor space having to deal with each other for eight, ten hours, however many hours a day, i would think the workplace risk is about the greatest least controllable risk with respect to covid any person has. arthel: what you think about supreme court justice take on this? >> shes a tough question are and that is fair but i would also say justice barrett who responds, she said the mandate is limited to those workplaces, coast workplace where people are crowded together in close quarters, the man...

Say, but thats not the risk they say theyre regulating. 61,411 of the federal register say the risk is youll come into contact with individuals and the risk of encountering an individual is an ever present risk you face at home, at work, and everywhere else. >> it seems to me hes arguing that it is too broad. there could be a federal government mandate, say, sounds like for meat packing plants or for a certain amount of people that work in the same room. what do you make of that argument? >> wel...

Days. >> yeah, this is the part that is so wild, daniella. if you did the thought experiment, even with how messed up things are. you would say, well, if it actually hit home where they really had to scurry and run and fear of their own safety. well, then at least for the modicum of self-interest, you would expect this. what you actually see is -- and you said not all republicans and i will say, as a journalist, im not -- im not speaking about every single one. but i am speaking about the ones w...

The governments fault. look at the other countries, like the uk and taiwan. they seem to be doing well. but look at japan. i cannot believe we call ourselves a developed country. back in tokyo, hundreds of athletes are now arriving each day. it is now clear that some of them will be carrying covid. the ioc�*s assertion that the games represent zero risk to public health is already starting to look flimsy. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. lisa m brosseau is research consultant at t...